Full Episode: Thursday, May 15, 2025

You just realized your business needed to hire someone yesterday. So how do you find Amazing Candy? Simple. Just use Indeed. Stop wasting time with other job sites that aren't getting your post seen. With Indeed's sponsored jobs, your post jumps to the top, getting in front of the right candidates. And it works. According to Indeed data, sponsor jobs get 45% more applications than non-sponsored jobs. Join the 3.5 million employers worldwide who are hiring great talent with Indeed.

Best part? No monthly subscriptions, no long-term contracts, and you only pay for results. There's no need to wait any longer. Speed up your hiring right now with Indeed. And listeners of the show will get a 100-pound sponsored job credit. To get your jobs more visibility, add indeed.com slash show. Just go to indeed.com slash show right now and support our show by saying you heard about Indeed on this podcast. Indeed.com slash show. Terms and conditions apply.

Tonight there is breaking news as we come on. Reports of multiple tornadoes touching down just moments ago. The image is coming in right now. The confirmed tornadoes. The terrifying scene in Wisconsin and in Minnesota. The system moving across several states. The Midwest and the North.

there are severe weather alerts at this hour from Texas all the way up to the Northeast 60 million Americans on alert meteorologist Lee Goldberg standing by live he has the timing of this system as we head into the night and then the dangerous weather expected tomorrow also tonight here

the dramatic moments today at the Sean Diddy Combs trial, the cross-examination of his ex-girlfriend, a star witness in this case. Tonight, ABC News now learning about a new and alarming outage for air traffic controllers, this time in the Denver area. Controllers

Unable to reach planes and tonight an air traffic controller in the Northeast breaking their silence Claiming they helped prevent two passenger jets from colliding the chilling case unfolding police a teenage daughter escaping her parents allegedly held captive

for at least seven years authorities say kept in a dog crate she escaped running to a neighbor who told authorities I hadn't seen her in years President Trump the first American president to visit the United Arab Emirates in nearly 30 years also tonight

Trump is saying about Vladimir Putin not showing up for talks on Ukraine and back in Washington the Republicans now sounding the alarm about that 400 million dollar jet being given to President Trump who wants to use it as Air Force One. The Supreme Court

court tonight the justices hearing arguments over President Trump's executive order that would end birthright citizenship and the judges who have so far blocked this what the justices at the high court signaled tonight news coming in a two-year-old has survived fall from the balcony on the 15th floor how the baby survived the alarming scene on a golf course tonight a 70 year old golfer hit by an SUV tearing across that course the economy tonight and the prices you pay and what Walmart's

CEO said today about prices soon going up and why. And we remember a famous actor tonight. He was in three James Bond movies.

Good evening, and we begin tonight with the harrowing scenes playing out in just the last hour or so. Several confirmed tornadoes touching down, and a tornado watch has just been issued for the city of Chicago tonight and the surrounding areas. In fact, multiple states under tornado and severe weather alerts the Midwest and millions then bracing for storms from Texas all the way up to the Northeast

Just some of the images coming in tonight. Just as we came on, the dark clouds gathering over Minneapolis. You can hear the tornado sirens right there, right across the city. East of Minneapolis tonight, this twister tearing across farmland near New Richmond, Wisconsin.

Again, several reported tornadoes, and tonight the tornado watch is in warnings, including Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Green Bay. The storm's moving east, Chicago, with this new tornado watch, and then the system affects the south all the way up to the northeast. What could be a very dangerous 24 hours ahead. Lee Goldberg standing by with the forecast. And ABC's Alex Perez in Chicago with this new tornado watch there. Leading us off with the images coming in already.

Tonight, millions in the Midwest on alert for powerful storms. East of Minneapolis, this massive twister spotted tearing up farmland near New Richmond, Wisconsin. Tornado sirens sounding in Minneapolis this afternoon. Our affiliate KSTP warning viewers of the danger. This is the core metro now under a tornado warning. The most populous county that we have in Minnesota.

from the station out on the roads tracking the storms. If there was going to be a tornado in this area it would be on the far left kind of by where that building is. 60 million on alert. The same system spawning this landspout tornado near North Platte, Nebraska overnight. And it's all headed east. Parts of the east coast still reeling from floods that had cars floating and flooded schools and claim the life of a 12 year old boy.

And David our tornado watches across the region including right here in the Chicago area through the evening Chicago officials taking no chances delaying the start of tonight's Beyonce concert Until it's safe David everyone's gonna take these watches seriously Alex. Thank you leading us off your chief meteorologist Lee Goldberg at our New York station here WABC tracking it all for us highly

Hey, David. Tornado debris reported in some Minneapolis suburbs. At least eight tornadoes reported. And with that half a dozen active tornado warnings that are coming across the middle of Wisconsin, get to a place of safety if you're in the path of these storms. The watch goes until

10 o'clock tonight, Wisconsin. It's spread down into Chicago and Peoria until 10 o'clock. About 8 o'clock, Milwaukee and Chicago. And then these storms work toward the Tennessee Valley by morning. You can get woken up by these storms in Louisville and over to National. Some storms even in the parts of Pennsylvania.

We apologize for the audio there. We know this is important. Lee Goldberger, thanks to you as well tonight. We turn now to the trial of Sean of Sean Diddy Combs here in New York. Tonight the cross-examination of the prosecution star witness, Sean Combs' ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura. Defense lawyers today confronting her in court with messages that she and Combs exchanged.

challenging some of her claims. Erin Kaczorski was at the courthouse on a warning again tonight. Some of this testimony is difficult. Hours of cross-examination lawyers for Sean Combs using ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura's own words in an attempt to portray her not as a victim of sex trafficking, but as a willing, even eager participant in his swingers' lifestyle. In hushed tones.

tones eight months pregnant and with her husband in the room ventura reading aloud intimate often explicit text messages about the sex she desired One juror appeared to shake her head, others leaned in to read along.

I'm always ready to freak off, one of her messages said, referencing the drug-fueled sessions with male prostitutes that Ventura said became an integral part of her relationship with Combs. Defense attorneys harping on her apparent enthusiasm. To make him happy, you told him that you wanted to. to do freak-offs ventura pushed back no there's a lot more to that

But the defense suggested Ventura became reluctant only when she felt dirty and grimy as opposed to sexual and spontaneous. As she said in one of her emails to Combs, I get nervous that I'm just becoming the girlfriend that you get your fantasies off with and that's it.

Ventura testified Combs coerced her into sex under threat of violence and blackmail. But on cross-examination, she said Combs was also violent because of jealousy and her infidelity. Telling the jury dating rapper Kid Cudi and actor Michael B. Jordan prompted Ventura kept up her composure through hours on the witness stand, David, and those will continue tomorrow, though the judge wants to make sure she's finished by the end of Friday because she could give birth at any moment.

Any moment, David, Eric Katursky, back at the courthouse again tonight. This evening, ABC News learning of a new and alarming air traffic control outage. This time, controllers in the Denver area losing communications with planes for some 90 seconds. This happened on Monday.

This has already happened multiple times at Newark Airport, and tonight an air traffic controller coming forward saying he saw two passenger jets here in the Northeast just seconds away from a midair collision. Here's Gio Benitez. Tonight, ABC News is learning about a new and alarming outage at an air traffic control center near Denver that left controllers unable to communicate with some planes for nearly 90 seconds.

The FAA says two radio transmitters went down just before 2pm Monday at a facility that handles planes flying above 18,000 feet in and around Colorado. Air traffic controllers quickly moving pilots to a backup radio channel. What we have here really is radio failure that we've seen many times before. We're going to see it.

see it again until we change things around. But it was a very orderly procedure in terms of backing it up. This all comes after a series of tech issues at Newark's Liberty Airport, a system-wide outage back on April 28th. at a Philadelphia facility, causing air traffic controllers to lose radar and communications with planes packed with passengers for up to 90 seconds.

And tonight, a controller at that facility now coming forward recounting the moment on May 4th when he saw two planes just seconds from colliding midair. Jonathan Stewart telling the Wall Street Journal he was manually keeping track in his notebook, worried that radar and radio communication might fail again. When he saw the two aircraft on a collision course, he instructed the pilots to turn the planes away from each other. but the incident leaving him badly shaken.

Stewart says he took stress-related trauma leave after the incident adding I don't want to be responsible for killing 400 people

Meanwhile, David, the FAA has been meeting with the airlines for the past two days to figure out how many flights each airline must cut at Newark. We've just been told that meeting will go into a third day. David. All right, Gio Benitez with us tonight. Gio, thank you. Now did the chilling case unfold.

unfolding in Camden County, New Jersey. Police say a teenage daughter escaping her parents, they say held captive for seven years. Authorities say she was kept in a dog crate. She escaped running to a neighbor who said they hadn't seen her in years. Here's our Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas. Tonight police say this was a house of horrors for an 18 year old daughter. allegedly held captive by her mother and stepfather for seven years.

Her parents accused of keeping her in a dog crate. That's absurd. Why would you keep a child in a dog cage? Police say the parents also padlocked the child in a bathroom, beat her repeatedly, and chained her like a slave. She escaped and made her way to a neighbor who spoke to our ABC station, WPVI. We definitely had scars on our list from, I think, being chained up.

That neighbor hadn't seen the victim in 11 years. Tonight, the young woman's mother, Brenda Spencer, and her stepfather Brandon Mosley facing kidnapping charges. Mosley also facing charges for allegedly sexually abusing the young woman. To me, this is the most abhorrent, heinous crime anyone could commit. The police say the nightmare began when the young lady was removed from school in only the sixth grade.

Another 13-year-old child was also living in the home. Now to President Trump tonight, the first American president to visit the United Arab Emirates. in nearly 30 years. The news he made there and what the president is also saying tonight about Vladimir Putin not showing up for talks on Ukraine as Republicans in Washington now sound off on this gift of a $400 million jet. that the president wants to use as Air Force One. Mary Bruce, traveling with the president.

President Trump today welcomed with great fanfare to the United Arab Emirates. The third and final stop of a Middle East tour designed to boost business ties with wealthy Arab states where his own family has major financial interests. I'm very proud of my friends. Trump and the president of the UAE announcing a new artificial intelligence partnership, including a planned data center powered in part by American-made chips.

We are going to be your friend and we're going to be your partner. Earlier, Trump visiting the largest US military outpost in the Middle East, a key hub in Qatar, strategically located to help counter Iran. The president saying his administration is now close to a nuclear deal with Iran.

Iran has sort of agreed to the terms Trump also touting efforts to end the war in Ukraine after urging Ukrainian President Zelensky and Russian President Putin to meet in Turkey tomorrow Zelensky agreed, but Putin refused, both countries instead sending representatives. Trump now throwing cold water on any potential progress.

Nothing's going to happen until Putin and I get together, okay? Qatar, like all the countries Trump is visiting on this tour, has business ties with the Trump Organization, now run by the President's sons. Eric Trump last month inking plans for an exclusive Trump golf resort. Hanging over the president's trip to the Middle East, his eagerness to accept a $400 million luxury jet as a gift from the Qatari royal family.

The plane would serve as Air Force One before its transfer to Trump's Presidential Library. But tonight, even some of the president's close allies are raising objections. Qatar, you know, supports Hamas. Actually, the Hamas leaders live in Qatar. I trust Qatar like I trust a rest stop band.

now this deal is still not done but the president is facing increasing political pressure back home even some top members of his own party are pushing back saying this deal needs to be closely scrutinized raising security and legal concerns David Mary Bruce reporting from the

from the Middle East all week. Mary, thank you. We turn now to an historic battle at the Supreme Court tonight. The justices hearing arguments over President Trump's executive order that would end birthright citizenship and the lower court judges who have so far blocked the order. Here's Rachel Scott. Birthright. That's a big one. Tonight the Supreme Court grappling with one of President Trump's most controversial moves.

his day one executive order revoking the right to citizenship for every baby born in the United States. Federal judges in three states have ruled the ban on birthright citizenship violates the constitution's 14th amendment. issuing nationwide injunctions, blocking it from going into effect.

The administration today arguing those nationwide injunctions are judicial overreach. We have the government racing from jurisdiction to jurisdiction having to sort of clear the table in order to implement a new policy. Justice Samuel Alito. sympathetic. The practical problem is that there are 680 district court judges and they are dedicated and they are scholarly and I'm not impugning their motives in any way but you know sometimes they're wrong. But Justice Elena Kagan says the ban

ban on birthright citizenship is different because all the courts seem to agree the ban is unconstitutional. This case is very different from a lot of our nationwide injunction cases in which many of us have expressed frustration.

At the way district courts are doing their business under questioning from Justice Brett Kavanaugh the lawyer for the Justice Department Conceding the administration has not fully determined how the ban would work on the day after it goes into effect It's just a very practical question how this is going to work. What do hospitals do? With a newborn, what do states do?

with a newborn I don't think they do anything different what the executive order says in section two is that federal officials do not accept documents that have the wrong designation of citizenship from people who are subject to the executive order I don't think I know that The states can continue to, the federal officials will have to figure that out somehow. And Justice Sonia Sotomayor, noting the High Court, has repeatedly reaffirmed the right to citizenship.

for every child born in this country. So as far as I see it, this order violates four Supreme Court precedent. The majority of the justices on the bench appear skeptical of the president's executive order ending birthright citizenship, but conflicted on that central question of whether federal judges can issue those nationwide injunctions to block it, David. All right, Rachel Scott tonight. Rachel, thanks as always to the economy.

and the prices you pay. Tonight, Walmart warning customers that President Trump's moves on tariffs are forcing the company to raise some of its prices. The CEO saying even though the president raised and then reduced tariffs on China for now, the impact will be felt regardless. We will do our best to keep our prices as low as possible. But given the magnitude of the tariffs, even at the reduced levels announced this week,

We aren't able to absorb all the pressure given the reality of narrow retail margins. We're positioned to manage the cost pressure from tariffs as well or better than anyone. But even at the reduced levels the higher tariffs will result in higher prices Prices at Walmart are expected to go up later this month When we come back here tonight, the news coming in, we have learned a two-year-old boy has survived a 15-story fall from a balcony. How the toddler survived this.

And then look at this tonight, the alarming scene on a golf course, a 70-year-old golfer hit by an SUV tearing across the course. We have learned more about his condition here in just a moment. The cultural phenomenon The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is back with an all-new season now streaming on Hulu.

Everyone at MomTalk has gotten to a really hostile point. Demi's willing to kick Jessie out of the group. I feel like I'm working into a line stem. It's gonna get messy, for sure. MomTalk is turning on each other left and right. The police are here. I can't see this going any other way, but a pure bloodbath. This is so toxic. The Secret Lives of Mormon Lives now streaming on Hulu. That alright nasty! Straight up! Can't mess! Don't blink! This isn't about This is a THIS TIME!

The NBA Playoff is presented by Golden.

Tonight, a frightening scene in Silver Spring, Maryland. A toddler has survived a 15-story fall from an apartment building. First responders believe the two-year-old boy fell from a balcony and survived by landing on the bushes below.

Authorities are now investigating the fall. Again, the boy is expected to survive this. An alarming scene on the golf course in Chicago. Police say a 70-year-old golfer was struck by an SUV racing across the Billy Caldwell golf course. An employee in a silver sedan chasing the SUV, stopping the driver. the suspect arrested by police. The victim remains in intensive care tonight. When we come back remembering a famous actor who was in many Bond movies.

FX presents, welcome to Wrexham. For the last four years, it's been this rollercoaster of magic. The Emmy Award winning series returns. Come on Wrexham! With an all new season. We're going into a really tough division. Birmingham. Absolute favorites with the arrival of Tom Brady. It's a friendly competition. Well, not so friendly. Imagine the opportunity to beat Tom Brady. This is the next in my therapeutic work.

Blue Original, Nine Perfect Strangers, Season 2. Breathe in. Breathe out. This is safe. We take you back to a She is manipulating us. Why are you resisting? Is it too late to get a refund? The all-new season of Nine Perfect Strangers is now streaming on Hulu and Hulu and Disney+. New episodes May 21st.

To the index, we learned today that actor Joe Don Baker has died in the original Walking Tall. He also appeared in three James Bond movies, the remake of Cape Fear along with Fletch and The Natural, his family tonight calling him a beacon of kindness and generosity. Joe Don Baker was 89. When we come back here tonight, the school year nearing an end, and the children tonight determine that we celebrate the Quiet Heroes 2.

Finally tonight here, America Strong, with the school year ending, from the custodians to the bus drivers, the school children who say, they got us here too. Cannons Elementary School in Spartanburg, South Carolina, they are cheering for their beloved custodian, Mr. Punzel Fernandes. Mr. Fernandes started working at the school back in 1987, nearly 40 years ago. So for his 80th birthday, They all wanted to celebrate them, lining the elementary school hallways.

singing happy birthday to mr fernanders and right here tonight They touch me, touch my heart. I love everyone. They show me they love me too. And joining us too... Hey David! The school principal, Mrs. Elizabeth Phillips. He makes sure that we have what we need all of the time. He loves the children, he loves the staff. and we all love them.

that custodian to celebrating a bus driver in Bradford, Tennessee, north of Memphis. This video being shared, viewed by millions. Six-year-old Mally Courtney inviting her school bus driver to her kindergarten graduation party. She loves that bus driver and Mally's aunt capturing the moment hey David I know that she's just thrilled that she gets to be on the news and I'm so thankful my video got to y'all and that y'all are sharing it thank y'all so much

Tonight here, Mally and Mom Olivia. I'm glad everybody got a chance to see how impactful my daughter's bus driver is. It's just my favorite thing. And joining us too, that proud bus driver, Mr. Don Allen. I love what I do because we set an example for these kids every day. So I'm trying to do the best that I can do. The children determined to celebrate everyone. We celebrate you too. Good night. you

Hey, it's Brad Milkey. This week on the Crime Scene Weekly, we're talking about a mom who gained national attention for faking her own kidnapping. Sherry Papini is back in the spotlight, but now she's changing her story and... trying to change her custody arrangement. kids. Listen to the latest from the case on the Crime Scene Weekly.